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Every Choice You Make Is Life Or Death In This Daydream Impact VR Experience

VRScout

In 2015, American entrepeneur Chris Milk brought us Clouds Over Sidra , showing audiences how VR technology could be employed as a powerful “empathy machine,” a term he used to describe the medium during a TED talk that has since gathered over 1.5 million views. .

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Bringing War Home

Tech Trends VR

As early as 2015, Chris Milk brought us Clouds Over Sidra and showed how VR was indeed a powerful “empathy machine” as he described the medium in a TED talk that gathered over 1.5 This means that urban conflict accounted for 70% of all civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria. million views since then.

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Introducing “RecoVR Mosul”, The Economist’s first VR.

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Introducing “RecoVR Mosul”, The Economist’s first VR experience ON FEBRUARY 26th 2015, the militant group known as Islamic State posted a video online showing the destruction of antiquities in and around the city of Mosul in Northern Iraq. Read more here.

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How VR is Changing the Way We Think About Therapy

VRScout

Virtual Iraq VRET was developed from 2005-2007 as an answer to the military’s problem at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies. Over time, Virtual Iraq VRET advanced and morphed into project BRAVEMIND , which yielded exceedingly positive results through clinical trials. Founded by psychotherapist Thomas J.

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Why Smells Are So Difficult To Simulate For Virtual Reality

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Having served with the US military in Iraq, Kenya and Djibouti, one of his key research interests is getting former soldiers to don VR headsets so they can face up to, and overcome, their traumatic memories. So getting out the car the first thing we would smell was rose. That has stuck with me until today.”.

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The 30 best educational podcasts for learning what you missed in school

Mashable VR

It tells the story of the Iraq War from that leftist point of view, and it's both fascinating and necessary. Much of the Iraq War, as the American public knew it, was laundered through a right-wing government, and it was some time before anyone was open to admitting the disastrous war was just that.

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Making of ‘Sun Ladies VR’, the Story of Former ISIS Sex Slaves Who Form an All-Female Fighting Unit

Road to VR

The Sun Ladies VR is an amazing story about a group of Yazidi women from the Northern Iraq community of Sinjar, who escaped as sex slaves and started an all-female unit to fight the terrorist organization ISIS. Celine Tricart. ISIS raided the Sinjar District in August 2014 and massacred over 2,000 Yazidis, selling many women into slavery.

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